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The fine article is from 2013 (thanks sjsdaiuasgdia). So it contains outdated information about the Saturn V legacy: > There has never been anything like the
by dotancohen 2y ago
The fine article is from 2013 (thanks sjsdaiuasgdia). So it contains outdated information about the Saturn V legacy:
> There has never been anything like the Saturn V, the
> launch vehicle that powered the United States past the Soviet
> Union to a series of manned lunar landings in the late
> 1960s and early 1970s. The rocket redefined "massive,"
> standing 363 feet (110 meters) in height and producing a
> ludicrous 7.68 million pounds (34 meganewtons) of thrust
> from the five monstrous, kerosene-gulping Rocketdyne
> F-1 rocket engines that made up its first stage.
Just this June the fourth Starship prototype flew, both taller (122 meters) and more powerful (74 meganewtons of thrust, twice that of the Saturn V).
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y agoCheck the date on the article - 4/14/2013
- dotancohen 2y agoThank you! @dang, can we add the year to the headline? Thank you.
- vhodges 2y agoTFA was written in 2013... much before the BFR/MCT presentation was done let alone realised a scant 11 years later. I do think it was an interesting option to replace the SRBs on SLS but alas we'll never know.